This week Paul Kinlan the lead for Chrome developer relations talks to us about Modern Web APIs including Web Share and Shape Detection! Paul talks us through the origin trials process which allows new APIs such as these to get into developers hands early, allowing platform developers to get all important feedback. We then get stuck into what Web Share is and how it works and chat about the possibilities of the Shape Detection API.

Justin Willis from Ionic joins us this week to talk about hybrid app development with Ionic and some amazing work they have been doing with Web Components. Justin gives us an overview of the Ionic project, its background and how it makes building hybrid apps super easy. We then move on to talk about why Ionic have chosen to rebuild their components as Web Components and the benefits they are seeing from making this move.

Mozilla moves the Shadow DOM feature backward from ASSIGNED to NEW signalling that we might have to wait even longer to get full Web Components support in FireFox: